Jumbo Crossword - 149

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

ACROSS:
1 Alternatively find gold in Lake Ligo (10)
6 Initially the shape of the right hand of doctor? (5)
10 Fly from the latest and heaviest final set backs (6)
16 Three people involved in riot (4)
18 Sounds a great one for a lament (4)
19 Round number in centre of door, perhaps (5)
21 Don't vote for Tony Benn initially - it will spoil your record! (7)
24 Cows almost always returning to exotic plant (8)
26 Projecting column at end of series in breakwater (8)
27 A C.A. has the intelligence like this to be blooming yellow (3)
28 Note the rise of a carrier (3)
30 Girl student's record (5)
32 Either was you sound sheepish (3)
33 Split lease? (4)
35 Address of the knight's bride? (8)
37 Shoot an animal and bird (8)
38 No way-out course! (6)
39 Upstanding characters from Crete (5)
41 The way an economic index is discussed (3)
42 Animal confused about what's socially acceptable with metallic oxide (7)
45 First-class bridge pair and I are Gallicised thus (5)
46 Sat around with former service women? (3)
48 Ran race with one time boxer (7)
50 Foreign organization that can twist a lie? (3)
52 Tip read out in "The Winter's Tale" (7)
53 Air Germany if making an intermittent comeback (6)
56 Fish worn on woman's finger? (7)
57 Mafia hit some who sing (8)
59 Promissory note given in rather curious circumstances? (3)
62 They have misleading passages (5)
64 It is charged for a portion without wine (3)
65 Tone down direction of adept returning on 3rd of July (4-5)
67 There's no holding a key man given some authority (3)
69 Arnold might be a little too much for her (5)
70 Short timer being the one to set rates for musicians (5)
71 The cut in foreign currency dealings (4)
72 What's so blooming soft in it in the sea? (5)
74 Plaster for an eyesore? (4)
75 Water nymphs in a sad muddle (6)
76 Bigfoot eats parking sticker? (4)
78 Great instability's needed to change labelling (5)
79 A moving experience (6)
82 How corny of them to be so sound! (4)
84 Forced smile over university breakfast (6)
86 She can turn out to be an upper class niece (6)
88 Not quite the top mark for Greek literature (4)
89 Being on edge in one popular resort (6)
90 He gets immersed in his work (5)
92 He writes about love, dear (4)
94 Paying attention to key that's out side (6)
95 Spirit used in an experiment (4)
96 Hungarian girl back into those delicious Italian olives (5)
97 A film star without a man could be a composer (4)
99 Young swimmer in wild revel (5)
101 Not willing to include such material (5)
103 Mineral that's worth something to a Scandinavian (3)
104 The country encircling one's country? (9)
107 Man addressed by his obedient servant (3)
108 It has changed states in an old-fashioned way (5)
110 Refreshments not available when the lad is about (1,1,1)
111 Capacity for giving the hiker backing (8)
113 "5 cents", I slurred, "for a Russian man" (7)
116 Begin to make arrangements (3,3)
118 Brooke slid-she fell (7)
121 He appears among many more distinguished Shakespeareans (3)
123 Drink some of what's brewed by Babs in the kitchen (7)
125 Unknown quantity of water? (3)
126 You can count on them (5)
127 Bared one's teeth? (7)
129 Centre for some chubby children? (3)
131 Island business distributing cover (5)
133 Backward washes means pointed names changed! (6)
135 Missiles free in temporary shelters (8)
138 Summer garment in miscellanea I discarded by Christmas (8)
141 Was carried on the so called highway (4)
142 Travel over a port in India (3)
144 Made a low sound (5)
146 His change to be at the end of the word? (3)
148 Somewhat feudal terrorist group? (3)
149 Completely disorganised like the whole crew (3,2,3)
151 Bursting out into pure chaos (8)
155 Grip me with a muddled saying (7)
156 Led rising with a shout in Asia (5)
157 Said differently when belonging to the girl? (4)
158 Letters of credit (4)
159 Cathy's rocking the boats (6)
160 Matildas for joker amid ships (5)
161 Affectionate feeling shown by nurses cradling birds (10)

DOWN:
2 Men a bit out of sorts when going round (7)
3 Scandinavian loaf is different (4)
4 Hitch your way around-having such feet? (5)
5 Time and again turns the key (3)
6 Non standard bird to go bad (3)
7 After a round we have something to pay (3)
8 A vegetable raised by people in Central America (4)
9 One may be fired if there's a space that may need filling (5)
11 There's energy even now in such a painting (5-4)
12 Sales are not too bad at the business show (5,4)
13 Emergency appeal when there's nothing in the ship (3)
14 Doing someone a good turn perhaps (12)
15 Leading English doctors housed in garrison (8)
17 Flow of royalty out of the back room (6)
20 Fall on a cold night (3)
21 The land that sounds as if it could make one sore (4)
22 Where Father Christmas goes on holiday, reportedly? (5,4)
23 Where our army personnel are trained and somewhat differently too! (3)
25 Pole forced to leap (4)
26 Someone you like to see go round the other way (3)
29 Smell round stern (5)
31 The first numbskull in northern New York? (5)
34 Walked around a region of Asia Minor (5)
35 Shed rested on nothing (4-2)
36 Middle Easterners air IQs stupidly (6)
40 Hunter University is off limits (4)
43 Enthusiastically join Peg at the meadow (4,2)
44 Could possibly meet an American Indian (5)
47 Professor Bond as the chief of the service (9)
49 Master returned only to get food (7)
51 During March that's the way to smash the pets up (5,4)
53 Superior pedestrian crossings? (11)
54 No success for a girl over parking (4)
55 For a foreign child who won't sleep in the dark? (3)
56 Dutch place lacking silver colouring (3)
58 Way that is for one on tour (6)
60 Choice of a different point on the circle (6)
61 Park for the bespectacled last character? (3)
63 The Spanish snake, perhaps, in garden at first, slipping down (8)
65 Obscene pictures must be destroyed (4)
66 Only a personal impression, but admissible as evidence (6-5)
68 Cat gets 101 Dalmatians' doctor (5)
71 Name of the girl the sheik has in tow? (8)
73 Short wave from Russian city (4)
77 This compiler's books seen in the City to a notable extent (9)
80 Say no to some expensive toy (4)
81 A dispiriting thing to do (3,1,5)
83 Director of top grade "French Sea"! (5)
85 Clean finish in bright climb (6)
87 Seeing a problem for one I stir up (6)
91 It can't be passed in silence (4)
93 Wear it against wet, or do it against sun (7)
97 American sailor back in the swamp (3)
98 Gallery men it reassembled in the manner of some military unit (12)
100 Some of the ritual in traditional form can be absorbing (4)
102 Swears it could be a sea fish (6)
105 Sorcery Japanese women get wrapped up in (3)
106 So Elizabeth I, returns as a goddess! (3)
107 Piece of wood fitted with blade at end? (5)
109 Sick jokes occasioning bad feeling (3-6)
111 Think you can ring off? You only finish up fighting (4,2)
112 Scolds about the hundred pelts (6)
114 Toscanini composition played with one hand? (9)
115 Big surprise trips meant going round fairground feature (9)
117 Story to break the ice when about to start the party (4)
119 She has the Queen finishing before she starts (5)
120 Agree end will be horrible for traitor (8)
122 Peter to appear in a show shortly at Christmas time (5)
124 Slow sad song from royal horse guards (5)
128 Sister firm about axing Central Diplomatic representative (6)
130 Course of one's passage when one's luck is down? (3,4)
132 Initially, the answer must be looked for in France (4)
134 Join avuncular American touring England (4)
136 On backing one Oceanian ordinariness (3)
137 Good players who make bloomers? (5)
139 Hair treatment provided by barber in Seville (5)
140 The girl from Gateshead (3)
143 Quietly left citizen of Gdansk for cheer (3)
145 Upward drag (4)
147 One striving to win (4)
150 Reaction a constructor hopes for in Tallahassee? (3)
152 So this is the land of the march composer! (3)
153 Sit up! Taint otherwise! (3)
154 Not right away? (3)

Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20)You are likely to remain careful and watchful today, foretells Ganesha. And because you'll be invited to parties and other social events, your enthusiasm will remain buoyant. You will also strike the right balance between business and pleasure, says Ganesha.